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TITLLC.O. 133

Colony have been defrayed, the annual receipts will be found nearly equal to the

annual Civil disbursements.

The comparative Cerpenditure for Caxpenditure 1845 exhibits an apparent increase beyond 1844, which is mainly owing to the Colonial Establishment having regularly only with the month of May,

commenced

1844, thus rendering 1845 the first integral year for which a return has been made. The heaviest items of expense

are the Police Establishments

and the Judicial Department, together amounting to nearly one half of the entire Civil charges of the Colony..

I have already in my Despatch Nr. 95 of the 13th Instant, suggested. reduction in the Surveyor General's Department, and as opportunities occurf other retrenchments may hereafter be

·ffected.

Public Works.

effecten

In the same Despatch I have reported that while the sum voted in Parliament for the public service in China fincluding the Consular Establistiment) for the year

1845-46 was £80,000, the actual charge has been $64, 543, after deducting. the Revenue raised in this Colony.

The Civil Expenditure

on accoun

of Public Works during 1845 has been £26,000, while that under the Ordnance Department appears as £57,007. Both of these are of course only temporary charges, incidental to a nuoly established Colony.

and

The progress of buildings improvements, public and private, during the last eighteen months has been truly surprising,

and could not have taken

place except for the ready command of

the

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